They're not contests, but challenges, and they're in all flavours.

The last one I did was LetsDrawSPN where everyone did their interpretation of this [link] (mine was this [link] because that's how I ROLL). Currently they're doing "at the movies" and my normal style isn't well matched for movie posters, and I don't have the energy to do electronic art.

Team Free Will Fanart does challenges every few weeks. They just wrapped up a video game one with some badASSED submissions that meant nothing to me at all (where were the 8 bit submissions???). They seem to be doing movies as well right now.

Anne's stuff is fic-related, annual bangs that may be themed (maybe all of SPN, or just Dean/Castiel or Gabriel or Ruby-related) (and they all have different rules, schedules, and URLs, though I think there's an LJ community that tracks them...) where authors submit blind summaries for generally long fics and artists pick which sound good for them, and then they collaborate on illustrating. Everyone's a winner, except for the losers (I've had three or four great experiences and one where I didn't even bother reading the final version because she thought spelling Lisa wrong was kreatif). She got some of my (self-described) best digital art out of me too, the waste of neurons...

FUCK. I love finding a hi res stash of episode stills [link] but I hate ripping and configuring it. I was gonna copy them manually, but that was when I thought they just had one episode (120 hi-res stills, but containing dupes). And then I gotta file them by content, upload, and tag.

Can this be medicated away?

Trefoil:

If you were going to pick *one* episode to screencap, which would it be? With the most amount of good looks, pathos, and badassery from the cast members you prefer?

Which episode was in the stills above?

If I had to screencap an episode? Wow. That's hard. My first instinct is to say Monster Movie because I love them in black and white, but I'd really have to think about it.

The entire series, apparently. But the volume gets much less as time passes.

I'll probably grab most of those pics, since I can do it automagically, but I won't file them all. I'm at a loss as to what to prioritise, though. I only got as far as AAH, Pilot, and Wendigo.

Thank you all very much! I've had a blast getting back into my artwork after a decade+ absence.

ita !, I've actually taken to photographing my pencil work in addition to my pastel work. I'm only scanning things like ink sketches and paint. I do adjust contrast and saturation in iPhoto (and occasionally Sketch Book Pro), and that seems to work. In the case of the pencil sketch here, I liked the look of the grey as I played with exposure and contrast, so I kept it.

Thanks, ita !. I'll show DH the links.

Uh oh. Show is on TNT all day today. This is tempting.

Strix, they're very fun to get into. As I noted--in the partnering I only got a crap writer once--everyone else was both good and easy to work with and just plain nice to a newb (many of them were new too).

I'm looking for good reference shots of Cas power walks. I have grabbed a bunch from Abandon All Hope, but if you have any suggestions of scenes where we see him from head to toe walking with purposeful BAMFy stride I'd love to look up pictures and see if they'd work for me.

Any help appreciated!

She says not looking directly at people watching Show all day.

Person watching Show all day says she'll see what she can do...